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Actually, it should just be “perfect roast” but since the first time I attempted this method it was with a stupidly expensive bison standing rib roast (and that’s what the picture is), I thought I’d go with that title. But I’ve since used it on a grass-fed eye of round roast, and it came out perfectly too. In fact, I’m so enamored with this method of roasting red meat, I plan to use it tonight with a rolled rump roast and then some time soon with a small venison roast I have stashed in the freezer.

I used to be very, very nervous about roasting beef. Oh, give me a cheap cut like chuck or arm roast and I’ll cook it to a melt-in-your-mouth turn in the slow cooker, but the mere thought of roasting a more expensive cut like prime rib always gave me the willies. And for good reason – no matter the time or temperature the recipe I chose to follow called for, the darn things would always come out either way too rare or horribly overcooked.

Paula Deen’s “Foolproof Prime Rib” recipe? Uh…no. The end result was a dismal failure; I just should have chucked the thing on the table raw, it was so incredibly underdone. (I have since read this method only works well in an electric oven, which might explain it since I have a gas range.)

At any rate, when I finally got the courage to cook the bison rib roast that had been lurking in my freezer, taunting me, I found one of those obscure, badly designed, looks-like-it-hasn’t-been-updated-since-1999 sites complete with cutesy little animated GIFs and seamless tiled backgrounds devoted to bison/buffalo recipes. Buried in this site were the directions for roasting a bison rib roast, so I decided to give them a whirl. And by golly, the darn thing came out perfectly – the exterior was lovely and roasted, while the interior was a juicy, tender and uniform pink. I was so thrilled with it that a couple of days later I cooked a grass-fed eye of round roast using the same method, and it came out perfectly too.

I’m sold.

One caveat, however – this method calls for the use of an oven-safe meat thermometer. My oven came with a probe for this very purpose; you plug the probe into the oven, then place it in the meat, set the probe to detect the proper internal temperature of the meat, then set the oven temperature and you can walk away and forget all about it – the oven turns itself off when the meat comes to temp. If your oven doesn’t have this handy little feature, you can buy oven-safe meat thermometers that will do essentially the same thing (well, except for turning the oven off). Just make sure it’s designed to go in the oven, and is not an instant read thermometer.

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OOOHHH I recognize this meat! That’s my plate you photographed. That’s right folks, I was fed by none other than the famous Jan of Jan’s Sushi Bar. And it was insanely delicious! The squash portion of the meal with the fingerling potatoes and boucheron cheese -marvelous as well! Thanks again Jan and Be for a lovely evening and wonderful meal. Ok- you can all carry on being jealous now. *smirk*

You are my HERO!! Maybe I’ll forgo trying to find a restaurant that serves Prime Rib (like the dismal failure of Longhorn Steakhouse on Princess Nagger’s birthday) for my birthday, and just cook my own. Or come to your house for my birthday and have you cook it for me. Commencing download of the recipe now!

I’ve cooked Prime rib before and tried a couple of different methods. This is similar to the one I use most of the time now–I have an electric stove right now but we want to get a gas stove so I’ll keep this in mind.